In the story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell I was challenged with the question, is hunting morally right? When reading this story I soon found out that Rainsford, a strandad hunter was being asked to hunt humans by his host General Zaroff. When Rainsford first comprehended the fact that General Zaroff hunts humans he responded with, “Hunting? Great Guns, General Zaroff, What speak of is murder.” To this General Zaroff just explained how it is still a civilized sport of hunting but more thrilling because humans can reason. Rainsford was very shocked by this reasoning and tried to explain how it is not the same as hunting animals when saying, “Civilzed? And you shoot men down?” I agree that this is in fact murder and that the prey decides if hunting is morally right. Humans are all equal so hunting them is completely uncivilized and inhumane. So overall i think it depends on what your hunting to truly determine if it is morally right.
